BLOG: Semantic Harmonization

Intelligent Team-based Literate Annotation
Melax Tech's literate annotation tool, LANN, is designed for efficient, high-quality text annotation to support information extraction tasks, including named entity recognition, relation extraction, and concept normalization in clinical NLP. It is a turn-key team-focused application to develop and implement your gold standard for annotation.
Feature 1
Save Time
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Take advantage of dictionaries and machine learning methods for smart, automatic, pre-annotation
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Support pre-annotation model training with existing annotation files
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Improve pre-annotation models with real-time online learning
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Effortlessly develop relation annotations with a few clicks

Feature 3
Supports Multiple Resources
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Utilize multiple annotation formats from existing tools such as prodigy, MAI, brat, etc.
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Easily annotate text and pdf files
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Upload or import text from any database table
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Automatically create annotation schema of entities and relations by reading from annotated text

Feature 2
Automate Workflow
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Edit annotation guidelines, record annotation questions (with screenshot support), and update resolved questions in real time
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Automatic index of semantic types
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Dynamic search of semantic types during annotation

Feature 4
Instant Communication
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Email admin/annotators with proposed/resolved questions
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Email annotators with assigned tasks, and deleted/rejected annotations
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Email admin with quality control progress
